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Release Information

This file provides information about different releases of the faodel tools. Releases are named alphabetically and have a 4-digit ID associated with them that designates the year and month of the release.

Excelsior! (1.1906.1)

  • Summary: Job-to-Job improvements via new cli tool
  • Release Improvements
    • New faodel-cli tool for manipulating many things
      • Gets build/configure info (replaces faodel-info)
      • Start/stop services (dirman, kelpie)
      • Define/query/remove dirman resources
      • Put/get/list kelpie objects
      • New example/kelpie-cli script shows how to use
    • Support for ARM platform
    • NNTI adds On-Demand Paging capability
    • NNTI adds Cereal as alternative for serialization
    • NNTI has better detection and selection of IB devices
    • Fixes
      • SBL could segfault due to Boost if exit without calling finish
      • FAODEL couldn't be included in a larger project's cmake
      • LDO had a race condition in destructor
  • Significant User-Visible Changes:
    • faodel-info and whookie tools replaced by faodel cli tool
    • Dirman's DirInfo "children" renamed to "members"
    • Faodel now has a package in the Spack develop branch
  • Known Issues
    • FAODEL's libfabric transport is still experimental. It does not fully implement Atomics or Long Sends. While Kelpie does not require these operations, other OpBox-based applications may break without this support.
    • On Cray machines with the Aries interconnect, FAODEL can be overwhelmed by a sustained stream of sends larger than the MTU. To avoid this problem, the sender should limit itself to bursts of 32 long sends at a time.

DIO (1.1811.1)

  • Summary: Build improvements to make FAODEL compatible with EMPIRE
  • Release Improvements:
    • Kelpie has rank-folding table (RFT) pool
    • Kelpie has new experimental IOMs (IomHDF5, IomLevelDB)
    • New MPISyncStart service for auto-filling node ids in configurations
    • DirMan is now its own service (previously a child of opbox)
    • Lunasa has templated containers for storing a bundle of items in an LDO
      • GenericSequentialDataBundle : When data is accessed in order
      • GenericRandomDataBundle : When data is accessed out of order
    • Users can now define whookies for rendering specific DataObject types
    • Bootstrap Start/Stops are much more robust
    • General build fixes for use with EMPIRE
  • Significant User-Visible Changes:
    • Common and services directories renamed to faodel-common and faodel-services
    • Kelpie pools now have a "behavior" that controls how data is copied
    • Some components/tools changed directories. Check your includes
  • Known Issues
    • Kelpie behavior setting may not be fully implemented on remote operations
    • Some tests hang when using OpenMPI with the openib BTL. Given that this BTL is deprecated, we recommend using OpenMPI with a different network component. FAODEL has been tested with the TCP BTL and the psm, psm2, and libfabric MTLs.
    • FAODEL's libfabric transport is still experimental. It does not fully implement Atomics or Long Sends. While Kelpie does not require these operations, other OpBox-based applications may break without this support.
    • On Cray machines with the Aries interconnect, FAODEL can be overwhelmed by a sustained stream of sends larger than the MTU. To avoid this problem, the sender should limit itself to bursts of 32 long sends at a time.
    • This version does not have support for ARM8 or POWER cpus.

Cachet (1.1803.1)

  • Summary: Flattened repos, simplify builds, and do external release
  • Release Improvements:
    • Quicker build system
    • Better stability with OpBox core
  • Significant User Visible Changes:
    • Renamed gutties to common. Gutties namespace is now faodel.
    • Switched default OpBox core to threaded
  • Known Issues
    • Similar to 0.1801.1
    • Kelpie is still a preview and may have stability issues
    • NNTI MPI transport may have stability issues

Belfry (0.1801.1)

  • Summary: Rename to FAODEL, expanded Opbox and Kelpie features
  • Release Improvements:
    • Renamed repo and internals from data-warehouse to FAODEL
    • Simplified release process
    • Updated LDO API
    • Added Opbox threaded core
    • Unified network config tags at the Opbox level
    • New Kelpie core ("standard") has networking capabilities
    • Kelpie has a preliminary IOM interface for posix io
  • Significant User Visible Changes:
    • The name external config file environment variable changed from CONFIG to FAODEL_CONFIG
    • The Opbox network configurations tags are now the same for either NNTI or libfabric
  • Known Issues
    • Mutrino builds are still challenging
    • OpBox/Dirman does not allow new connections after one app shuts down
    • IOM API expected to need changes for other backends
    • Kelpie row operations not implemented
    • Libfabric wrapper does not implement Atomics and lacks maturity
    • Sparse documentation

Amigo (0.1707.2)

  • Summary: Bug fix release, for friendly users
  • Release Improvements:
    • Improved stability of NNTI at large scale
    • Fixed include dir bug in DataWarehouseConfig.cmake
    • Fixed "always on" debug message in Kelpie
  • Known Issues
    • Same as 1707.1

Amigo (0.1707.1)

  • Summary: First packaged release, for friendly users
  • Release Improvements:
    • Stable versions of SBL, Gutties, Whookie, NNTI, Lunasa, and Opbox
    • Experimental version of Kelpie (nonet)
    • Switched to Graith CMake modules
    • Initial doxygen and readme documentation
  • Known Issues
    • Mutrino builds are still challenging
    • Kelpie only supports nonet core (for local testing)
    • OpBox/Dirman does not allow new connections after one app shuts down
    • Sparse documentation (especially examples)